194 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND 



and there is little doubt that this was the inten- 

 tion of the building planned on pentagons at 

 Amesbury, in Wilts. Over the door is the 

 inscription, " Diana, her house," and the date. 

 Of eighteenth-century work there are still a 

 good many instances left. At Boxted Hall, in 



Suffolk, the garden- 

 house stands at one 

 end of the fruit gar- 

 den. The ground 

 floor is open in front, 

 with entrance in the 

 centre between two 

 stone columns, which 

 support the upper 

 storey, and wood 

 balustrades between 

 the columns and the 

 wall. The upper 

 storey is of brick 

 with stone quoins, 

 and has a gable roof, 

 tiled, with a semi- 

 circular window. 



Fig. 50. 



There is a good instance of a brick gazebo on 

 the Wey canal, about 6 miles from Weybridge, 

 dating probably from the beginning of the 

 eighteenth century. This is a large square 

 building with heavy projecting eaves, and a 

 curiously hipped tile roof. It stands at one end 

 of a raised walk some 7 feet high, with a solid 



